How much is the salary of a UK automotive engineer in 2018?

According to The Engineer‘s 2018 Salary Survey, the average salary of UK automotive engineers responding to our survey is £48,967, up marginally from 2017 (£48,100) and very close to the average for engineering overall.

The UK’s car industry, for many years a significant manufacturing success story, has been struggling in recent months.

Concerns about future customs arrangements post-Brexit, and a drop in both overseas and particularly domestic demand for cars have led to fears over future growth in the sector. These fears have been fuelled by announcements of job losses at car makers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and concerns about the Government’s lack of support for diesel vehicles.

Junior engineer

£32,163

Senior engineer/manager

£48,908

Director or above

£81,227

*All data from The Engineer Salary Survey 2018. 

Despite recent job losses, however, the industry remains a huge employer, and that can be seen in the respondents to our survey, of whom engineers in the automotive sector consistently make up the biggest group. In 2018, 12.3 per cent of respondents described